April 16, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
(…) COVID-19, as the world now knows, can be devastating; it causes mild to moderate symptoms in many of those infected, but pneumonia and other life-threatening complications can ensue. Over 137,000 people with the virus have died worldwide, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University that experts say is almost certainly too low.“ (…)
PARMA, Italy (AP) —
„It was March 7, in the afternoon. Dr. Giovanni Passeri had just returned home from Maggiore Hospital, where he is an internist, when he was urgently called back to work. His ward at the hospital was about to admit its first COVID-19 case.
Driving back to the hospital, down the tree-lined streets of Parma, Passeri, 56, recalled thinking: „Am I going now to my execution?“
Italy’s more than 21,000 coronavirus dead have included scores of doctors, including a colleague of Passeri’s at Maggiore, a hospital in one of Italy’s hardest-hit northern provinces.“ (…)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200416/p2g/00m/0fe/096000c
